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From left to right: S-CAR Dean Kevin Avruch, Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair Susan Hirsch, and Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler.

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This is a clipping from Rolling Stone that features the 2009 homecoming queen for George Mason, Reanne Ballslee (AKA Ryan Allen). This shows that Mason got widespread coverage for supporting drag.

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Roger Wilkins was a leader in the fights for civil rights in the Kennedy and Johnson administration before becoming a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist. Wilkins provided an autobiography of a Black man who has moved through various levels of American…

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Attorney, civil rights activist, and historian Roger Wood Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Earl and Helen Wilkins on March 25, 1932. His father, Earl Wilkins, was a business manager for the Kansas City Hall newspaper, and his mother was…

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Roger Wilkins was known for creating a safe and welcoming environment for his students and fellow associates, which is why he was eventually memorialized after his death.

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Roger Wilkins in the center is being sworn in as Director of the United States Community Relations Service, Washington, D.C., January, 1966. Also in attendance is his first wife, Eve Wilkins, daughter, Amy Wilkins, and U.S. President Lyndon Baines…

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Roger Wilkins (center, highlighted, facing the wall) and his first wife, Eve Wilkins (left of Wilkins), in a receiving line with President Lyndon B. Johnson (fourth from left), Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (second from right) and others,…

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Around this time, the Agora society was formed, a group dedicated to the the arts and various cultural preservations. They hosted their first stage play in 66, and first adaptation screening in 1967-68

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Students began forming clubs and organizations on Campus, as well as forming Greek life, notable events was for example the Spring Formal.

An oral history conducted with Ric Chollar on the topics of LGBTQ+ history at Mason.
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